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Learn how new Aras applications are advancing design and production for companies by incorporating real-time field feedback, operational data, Digital Twin simulation, and multidisciplinary change management.

As opportunities arise to manage complex products in the field, organizations are realizing that existing technology is lacking, making it difficult to keep up with the pace of change. Failing to excel is affecting brands, profitability, and business sustainability – this creates the opportunity to digitally transform with the Digital Twin.

CAD data is useful, but without context it can be misleading. Aras’ Dynamic Product Navigation enables users to interrogate lightweight 3D part data within the context of a centralized Enterprise PLM System.

Here from Graeme Taylor, Product Manager, as he demonstrates functionality to improve maintenance effectiveness by building and managing Digital Twin configurations able to access their own critical information–every time the physical asset changes.

In today’s highly competitive landscape, Medical Device companies are striving to be more efficient, bring more products to market faster, while at the same time, reducing costs. Medical Device companies operate in a complex supply chain that requires cooperating with many suppliers and partners. This does not make it easy to achieve the expected results. The challenges in handling products from concept, through launch to retirement are large and involve many processes across business units, extending to supply chain partners. Not only are the processes complex, but they typically involve multiple, isolated, independent databases, spreadsheets, and files.

Aras customers have been using the Aras platform to customize and enhance their applications for years. Session 3 will focus on our community and how they are leveraging the industrial low-code platform with Aras’ platform services to develop their own innovative solutions. The team will implement a third iteration of improvements to our newly built application. To conclude the session, we will utilize an Aras Community Project with our new application to expand its scope. These open source applications and packages enhance functionality, add features, or integrate with Aras Innovator. The applications are provided by any member of the Aras Community in a public forum.

As part of an innovation process, it is expected that new ideas will be proposed, and additional user stories created, to fine tune the target application. The ability to dynamically evaluate new proposals and identify the best business cases with the highest return on investment (ROI) is critical. In session 2, we will continue to highlight customer solutions as we build out our custom application. Watch the team add data visualization, content editing, and the ability to respond to user feedback to the MVP built in session 1, to drive incremental value from the application.

The high demand for new application development has surpassed the availability of qualified resources to meet the need. Many companies are turning to flexible, low-code development platforms to provide an alternative to traditional development strategies. In this first session, we will examine specific examples of how organizations leveraged Aras Innovator to create new functionality and met the needs of their users. You will also experience the rapid development environment as the team constructs an application using Aras Innovator.

A pervasive systems thinking approach throughout the lifecycle not only considers a complex product and its multidisciplinary subsystems, it also accounts for the larger systems of which it is a part. Users, the environment, other products, and critical processes throughout the lifecycle all impact a product at the systems level, and companies that design with this approach in mind excel in their businesses. Learn how new applications in Aras realize systems architecture, requirements engineering, and multi-fidelity simulation to helps our community advance their products in new and innovative ways.

Product engineering and manufacturing process planning in Aras Innovator are the most widely-used applications across our community. Learn how new Aras applications are advancing design and production for companies by incorporating real-time field feedback, operational data, Digital Twin simulation, and multidisciplinary change management. Tomorrow’s products leverage software, hardware, and electronics, and the Aras community is leading the way to develop these innovative new products first.

Digital transformation relies on access to the right information at the right time for all parties across the lifecycle. Learn how the Aras community is expanding the way their companies can own the lifecycle of product information—including service and operational data—with new Aras capabilities for the Digital Twin. The availability of critical information in the Digital Thread for maintenance users will create opportunities to support new business models, respond to quality issues, and influence next generation product development.

What’s the latest from Aras? Come hear a comprehensive update on all Aras products, including what’s been delivered in the past year and what’s planned in the next year or two. Get the big picture, and start thinking about what you’d like to roll out as part of your PLM implementation or expansion. Maybe you’d like to establish Digital Twins for your products in the field, with 3D navigation and simulation. Or enable a variant-driven systems architecture to drive your new product development. Or set up a Cloud-friendly deployment, either private or hosted by Aras. Or accelerate your DevOps environment using the Test Automation Framework. All of these and more are coming from Aras.

With customers waiting many years for aircraft, Airbus IT recognized that many applications needed to be modernized, upgraded and, ultimately, integrated in order to gain efficiency, improve performance, and digitally transform the company. Their solution―“greenhouse” for users to tackle their own projects.

Vehicles are more sophisticated than ever, with ever-increasing connectivity. Learn three secrets for competing in this age of rapid innovation and the methods that allow for the development tomorrow’s products today.

Responding to rapid changes in the business environment and accommodating unique processes across many different business units, was the goal of Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ PLM journey. With 35,000 employees on six continents and over $14 billion in annual revenue, the company serves a global customer base in dynamically changing markets. This presentation will discuss how KHI achieved flexibility, agility and sustainability for future disruptive innovation with a unified digital platform as the backbone of their entire value chain.

The vision of a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) is to have an authoritative and traceable source for all artifacts and activities throughout a product’s lifecycle. The promise of reduced costs, higher quality (including tighter adherence to governance and regulations), and improved productivity; drives this digital revolution.

Learn how the platform approach to system development integrates MBSE, software, requirements management, simulation, and maintenance with examples of how to use the integrated platform to deploy a rapid development greenhouse environment, agile R&D, design space exploration, and supply chain integration.

Aras’ Visual Collaboration enables effective communication in a secure environment, allowing you to work seamlessly across the Enterprise. Watch this demonstration for a review of Visual Collaboration’s capabilities and highlight the effectiveness of clear communication across Aras Innovator. You will learn how to view and add comments in the discussions panel, leverage the viewers to gain visibility into all related content, and create markups to effectively communicate changes needed.

Automobiles are more sophisticated than ever, incorporating provide connectivity, navigation, entertainment, enhanced safety, and autonomous functionality. To compete in this age of rapid innovation, manufacturers must adopt methods that allow them to develop the products of tomorrow, starting today.

As business processes evolve rapidly, organizations are discovering that they must find new and better ways to meet the demands of their evolving industries. Those destined to succeed and thrive are preparing to meet challenges that aren’t even envisioned today.

In this demo, we will dive into how Aras handles workflows, sub-workflows, notifications, and status reporting. You shouldn’t have to change your business to fit your PLM, but it should be easy to change your PLM to meet your unique needs.

Keeping track of changes to complex products is difficult—think Aerospace & Defense equipment, new generations of commercial aircraft, and software-based automobiles. A new way to managing the digital context of the physical product is required and the answer is the Digital Twin.

Having the ability to establish and maintain traceability of requirements to all system, design, testing and manufacturing data throughout the product’s lifecycle is critical to managing Digital Thread and Digital Twin. It is critical to managing ever-increasing product complexity.

Management of documents, spreadsheets, and process diagrams is critical to maintaining a digital thread. Documents need versioning, security control, and the context and interdependencies need to be managed.

Learn how engineers can keep up with increasing business requirements that demand companies increase competitiveness, gain market share, and allow for moves into adjacent markets with a resilient platform.

More and more industries are finding difficulty meeting regulatory and compliance demands related to their products and development process. The ever-increasing volume and complexity of rules and regulations has led to a huge amount of data being produced in the form of documents and other types of data.

Managing CAD data is an essential task for any company. Leveraging CAD Data and working with multiple PDM systems is a bigger task. Aras Innovator can work with other PDM systems to connect all of your Multi-CAD CAD data to a single enterprise PLM system.

As companies grapple with legacy processes and systems while they develop and manage complex connected products, digital transformation becomes a priority in order to maintain a competitive edge.
A Product Innovation Platform that is accessible to all producers and consumers of product lifecycle information is fundamental to breaking down barriers and building trust in data so teams can collaborate efficiently and effectively.

Come discover Tech Docs and learn how this capability might be useful for your technical documentation needs. For those who haven't looked at Tech Docs in a while, come see what has changed along with our plans for future enhancements.

Managing and communicating change across many groups remains a core challenge for any company that makes products. It needs to be done in a clear, collaborative, and transparent manner, but ever increasing complexity makes this process exponentially more difficult. Change processes that are ineffective or poorly managed can leave organizations struggling to improve quality while also dealing with increased time-to-market and poor cost management.

Find out about the Aras Community Event (ACE) 2019 Europe in Munich! You’ll quickly discover that ACE Europe is a unique setting with lots of network opportunities & great presentations we created to bring together the best and brightest to discuss the industry’s toughest challenges. Attendees could choose from dozens of presentations from thought leaders, Aras management team and Aras customers (e.g. BAE Systems, MAN Energy Solutions).

Aras provides the means to own the lifecycle of enterprise data, customer experience, business and product innovation, and enabling technology infrastructure–including information from the operational lifecycle.

Simulation has often been disconnected from the rest of the development process, struggling with traceability and the ability to provide meaningful feedback in a timely manner. Watch this demonstration as it shows how Aras Innovator can use simulation to evaluate the performance of a design as it progresses, and how the results of simulations can be tied back to Requirements to do closed-loop Verification and validation at every stage of the product lifecycle.

The word “visionary,” is often used to describe those who imagined a future that the rest of us didn’t foresee. At Aras, we often think of them as resilient thinkers. Discover why resilient thinkers need a resilient platform and the three key characteristics it must have in order to meet tomorrow’s as yet unknown challenges.

To improve new product development execution and compliance to industry quality standards, Littelfuse executive management approved a strategic initiative to evaluate and implement a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution that would meet the long term needs of the company.

In this webinar you will learn about Dynamic Product Navigation and see the first set of a suite of enhancements to the Aras PLM Platform which provide the ability to configure and display 3D models of your product regardless of the CAD system the data originated from using a simple, intuitive user interface.

Two major trends—increasing product complexity and the growing role of the supply chain in design and manufacturing― have been playing out in manufacturing companies across all industries. The convergence of these trends has created a significant challenge for design collaboration with outsourced manufacturing partners―impacting productivity and operational excellence every day.

Businesses will need to invest in upgrading their current technology to meet these new realities. Regardless of the approach, in order to make these investments reflect a positive return on their investment (ROI), the solution will need to consider the business processes, volume and location of users, technical landscape and security of the data. Watch this presentation to learn how you can transform your global supplier collaboration while securing your IP.

This case study explores how Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems is using the Aras Platform to simplify and improve collaboration across multiple teams and partners allowing them to share data faster than ever before.

Hear about the Aras vision and plans for future releases. Aras is busier than ever, innovating on technology, PLM processes, and new applications. We’ll share all of our latest crazy ideas and show you how they’ll shape the future of PLM.

With ever increasing product complexity, Requirements Management (RM) is critical to any complex system and/or product design. However, in many cases, requirements management is still done in siloed, standalone RM tools. And, the fact is, many design failures can be traced back to poor requirements management. This eBook explores the current challenges and risks companies face when it comes to requirements management and outlines the solutions and benefits offered by Aras’ Requirements Engineering (RE) application.

The Aras Community is an open group of developers, analysts, admins, and users that share their PLM and Aras knowledge across industries. To support our community, Aras provides a platform packed with resources and features to empower community members. Watch as Eli Donahue, Aras Labs Lead Engineer, demonstrates what the Aras Community platform has to offer you. He’ll start with a brief overview of the Aras Community site, followed by demos of a few open source projects that community members have shared.

Digital transformation is the common goal found across industries today. To achieve this goal, a platform architecture is found to be the core enabler where improvements in revenue opportunities occur.

Watch this webinar with Thomas Gill, Senior Consultant at CIMdata, as he discusses issues with legacy monolithic architectures, key elements of a product innovation platform architecture and the business benefits that can be achieved with a modern solution.

Join Crystal Brandl, Product Manager at Aras, for a first look at the SAFe Portal. This demonstration will highlight many of the common elements of SAFe, including Agile Release Trains, Program Increments, Iterations, Features, Issues, and Tasks. You will also take a look inside how Agile Teams are managed, and the Kanban boards used to visualize the backlog and work-in-progress.

Discover why a Digital Thread is key to achieving full product lifecycle traceability—allowing you to track a product and its digital assets from all the way from concept through design, manufacturing, quality, and service. Learn how this unbroken flow of information will help your organization gain crucial insights that can inform decisions throughout every aspect of the product lifecycle—improving communication and collaboration and resulting in the creation of better products, with a shorter time to market.

It is no secret that companies are grappling with threats to their intellectual property (IP) data on a daily basis. Predictably, governments are creating new regulations and guidelines to respond to these risks.

Watch the demo and see how the Aras Platform helps formalize the release of fabrication and assembly data from Altium Designer to external vendors. By placing manufacturing data in PLM, the enterprise benefits from a uniform release to a manufacturing process that is subject to formal permissions and flows. These processes are independent of the Altium design activities that may be occurring in parallel.

Aras Innovator Version 12 introduces an entirely new client experience to help every Aras user get their work done faster. The navigational architecture of the client has been redesigned to enable users to find the content they need with fewer steps, interfaces have been simplified to clearly identify data and commands that are relevant, and the process of editing data has been updated to be more intuitive for users both experienced and new. Watch this short demonstration on how Aras Innovator Version 12 improves productivity and ease of use.

Today’s product innovations, and tomorrow’s, rely on simulation. Managing simulation data and results in the Digital Thread with Aras scales the value of simulation to more of the product lifecycle, advancing innovation today and into the future.

In this demo, you’ll see how easy it is for engineering teams throughout the product’s lifecycle to access the simulation data, processes, and results they need to develop high-performing products, faster. Aras Comet SPDM captures and automates repeatable, best-practice simulations for use – and reuse – by engineering teams to ensure better accuracy and faster turnaround times.

Watch the demo to learn how easy it is to create additional effectivity variables and manage your scope, how to set effectivity expressions – as simple or complex as your business requires, and how to resolve structures fully or partially given the effectivity resolution criteria.

Manufacturers need to move quickly to decide whether they are on the right path to avoid disruption from existing and new competition. With this in mind, the path becomes clear – innovate and incorporate the technology that customers are looking for in their next-generation products and implement the Digital Thread.

Manufacturers need to move quickly to decide whether they are on the right path to avoid disruption from existing and new competition. With this in mind, the path becomes clear – innovate and incorporate the technology that customers are looking for in their next-generation products and implement the Digital Thread.

Whether it has to do with mass property editing, multilingual entry, creating relationships, or keyboard-friendly workflows, let us know how we can make data input faster and more user-friendly for you.

Commercial flying aircraft are either flying or in maintenance at a base or line station. Technicians need the tools and systems to return the aircraft to service as efficiently as possible. Impresa MRO is one of those tools!

Learn how the Aras Component Engineering Application, as part of the Aras PLM Platform, empowers Component Engineers with a single source of Electronic Component information - enabling them to make informed decisions on appropriate components to select from already purchased components or sourcing new components.

Aras Manufacturing Process Planning gives manufacturing planners access to the Engineering Bills of Materials and the ability to re-structure the EBOM to a Manufacturing BOM - including Phantoms and MBOM only parts. Authoring capabilities are included in MPP to allow creation of rich manufacturing instructions for the shop floor.

We all know finding data in PLM is not a simple task. You begin with a search and end up with lots of search results. You find yourself lost and wonder why there isn't a solution that is simple, easy to navigate and with better visualization. Aras Graph Navigation can help! With a graphical visualization of filtered search results, you can quickly identify what you are looking for and its relationship within the complex product structure. It will not only help you find data but its impact on relationships and other PLM information. See how Graph Navigation can be configured to meet your business needs.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) is in the process of deploying Aras Innovator as the backbone of its new model-based digital thread. As an FFRDC, the laboratory serves a number of sponsors in the aerospace and defense industries, and sits at the very beginning of the R&D process for those organizations.

Aras Innovator 12 introduces an entirely new client experience with intuitive controls and improved navigational architecture to help you get work done faster. Learn about the user input that inspired the design, specific features included in version 12, and the approach Aras is taking to regularly include UX enhancements in future releases.

Learn about new features introduced in the Product Engineering application in Aras Innovator 12, such as effectivity management in BOM structures. We will provide an overview of the product roadmap, a demo of new features, and a preview of what we are building next.

Managing data across disparate systems and business units is a common challenge to all organizations as they strive to create a single Digital Thread of connected enterprise data. The Aras PLM platform already enables organizations to federate data between Innovator and other systems, but we're striving to make it even easier with Aras Federation Services.

An overview of the role of Aras Innovator in support of digital engineering initiatives at Sandia Labs as well as its envisioned future role as part of a comprehensive PLM vision currently under development.

Traditional siloed requirements solutions prevented the management of requirements as an integral part of the product development process and navigation of the underlying digital thread. Aras Requirements Engineering is the next generation of requirement management solutions, built on top of the Aras PLM platform. Basing Requirements Engineering on the Aras Innovator platform, provides the benefit of all the standard PLM services, such as Change and Configuration Management, Versioning, Standardized Workflow, Lifecycle, and Collaboration.

Although it had its roots as a simple, yet powerful graphical query mechanism for constructing custom queries, the Query Builder (and the Query Definitions created by it) has become the core mechanism for defining data structures used in many areas of Aras Innovator, including PLM Visualization and Configuration Tools. Learn about the Query Builder, hear about the enhancements in the past year, and see how it's used for defining Tree Grid and Graph Views, determining access rights, Part Effectivity, data migration, as well as our plans for its use in the near future.

Hear about the Aras vision and plans for future releases. Aras is busier than ever, innovating on technology, PLM processes, and new applications. We’ll share all of our latest crazy ideas and show you how they’ll shape the future of PLM.

In 2016, General Motors embarked on a project to replace the homegrown Change Management System with Aras Innovator. Since then, Aras Innovator has provided enhanced capabilities and a more robust workflow on a supported upgradeable framework. Hear highlights about the Aras and GM journey.

This presentation will quickly cover the basic access control mechanisms - identities and permissions, then move into more advanced topics like the use of teams and roles, and demonstrate the more advanced mechanisms of MAC and DAC. Common scenarios will be used to describe how the techniques may be combined to provide the required access behavior. Finally, the performance implications of using these different techniques will be reviewed.

Aras Innovator is a CAD-agnostic platform that understands how to manage design artifacts from all major CAD systems, providing engineers a single digital location to access and share the latest product information and files in real time.

Aras Impresa MRO is a complete system for aviation maintenance that can support components, compex assemblies and airframe overhaul. From Order entry to Operations, Supply Chain to Finance, Labor Booking to Quoting & Invoicing, Tooling to Global OPerations, the application can support your organizations' structure and business processes. This presentation will provide you with a short overview of its capabilities.

The Medical System business unit of Fujifilm serves a global customer base of hospital systems and clinics so that Fujifilm is required to comply multiple international regulations such as the audits of government and certifying body. In this session, Fujifilm will share its challenges and solutions in building more reliable Digital QMS with Aras Innovator for achieving faster and more traceable DHF.

Aras Component Engineering provides access to the 500M + components available in the IHS Markit CAPS database. This allows subscribers to search and compare components, download part details, compliance information as well as have access to Product Change Notices, End of Life notices and more. This presentation will provide an overview of Component Engineering and cover the latest enhancements.

Aras Technical Documentation (Tech Docs) is a content authoring tool, fully integrated into Aras PLM that collectively provides component content management capability for topics-based, modular documentation. Tech Docs enables users from various disciplines to author, visualize, share, and publish information all within a central, controlled, and collaborative environment. If you're new to the application, discover Tech Docs and learn how this capability might be useful for your technical documentation needs. For those who haven't looked at Tech Docs in a while, see what has changed along with our plans for future enhancements.

With increasing customer demands for new products and services, Microsoft needed to scale across its processes and tools to support these growing businesses – devices and cloud. Making small changes was not an option and it required big and impactful transformations across people, processes, and tools and it was needed yesterday – transplanting the heart of the product development engine (PLM) while running a marathon.

There are a lot of myths when it comes to Digital Transformation and PLM. In this presentation, CEO and Founder Peter Schroer will explore those myths and bust them. Also, get an update on the Aras Community.

Learn how you can benefit from the convergence of the Aras Requirements Engineering application and its PLM platform.

Requirements Management provides powerful capabilities for complex systems engineering planning, development and realization through the creation of a single, multi-discipline requirements hierarchy. Change management workflow assures requirements stay in sync as the system or product evolves over the lifecycle.

There are a lot of myths when it comes to Digital Transformation and PLM. In this presentation, CEO and Founder Peter Schroer will explore those myths and bust them. Also, get an update on the Aras Community.

Watch this demonstration on how the Microsoft® Office Connector for Aras Innovator® improves personal productivity while driving standardization, consistency and compliance throughout the enterprise by showing capabilities in the areas of search, linking, revision and version control, enterprise change management and security and compliance.

Driving digital transformation to meet the demands of processes with fast changing requirements is particularly challenging with yesterday’s rigid technology. Forward thinking organizations are looking toward a more modern enterprise architecture that can quickly adapt to unique digital process needs now and into the future. Join CIMdata Vice President, Stan Przybylinski, and Aras SVP Strategy, Marc Lind, as they discuss the platform implications of Digital Transformation in today’s global enterprise.

Insitu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, creates and supports unmanned aerial vehicles and software technology, delivering end-to-end solutions for collecting, processing and understanding sensor data. Insitu knows the importance of keeping Aras Innovator up-to-date and they regularly take advantage of Aras’ upgrade services to make sure they can take advantage of all of the latest features and capabilities. Discover how the Insitu and Aras’ upgrade team worked together to complete a successful upgrade with measurable results.

See how Aras Innovator can seamlessly integrate with your existing SolidWorks PDM integration to take advantage of the power of an enterprise PLM as the backbone for change management, while fostering collaboration throughout the entire organization and lifecycle in managing CAD related data from concept to release.

Global manufacturers need to take immediate action to reduce their chances of being disrupted – either from existing competitors, or worse, caught unaware by new market entrants. Defending or advancing market share requires new business models that are supported by smart, connected products, and refined by continuous, closed-loop customer feedback to drive the perpetual motion required to stay ahead of the competition.

The Aviation Industry is booming as economies strengthen globally, resulting in increased passenger growth. This is causing large investments in new aircraft, and as fuel prices remain stable, legacy aircraft remain in operation to augment this increase in passenger traffic. All of this while the OEMs push to reduce a backlog of orders.

Learn about the flexibility and configurability of the Aras Innovator platform to support your company's product development and product realization needs.

During the demonstration we cover:
• Creating and working with sequences and lists
• Working with workflows and lifecycles
• Modifying/updating existing business items with new properties
• Working with permissions
• How to create a new item type and forms

Your business is predicated on fast turnaround time (TAT), on-time delivery, and increasing volume. If your on-time delivery performance is below 90%, now’s the time to evaluate your MRO processes and capabilities. Turnaround time won’t get any easier as aircraft become more complex.

This webinar will discuss key levers to speed on-time delivery and help you reach the magic 90% metric and will not only provide a proven blueprint to improve your current operations but also strategy to compete for future market share.

Download this eBook that provides a blueprint for implementing the Digital Thread. Learn how companies actively use the Digital Tread are creating new business models that are supported by smart, connected products.

The rapidly growing complexity of products presents a significant challenge for manufacturers that are competing to bring the latest, most sophisticated, and connected products to market. This level of complexity has also introduced the need to take a systems level approach. Collaborating across disciplines—mechanical, electronic, and software—creating systems of systems. This eBook explores five concepts that will help engineering leads develop system-centric design processes, align teams, master product complexity, and drive innovation.

The Aras PLM Platform already enables organizations to federate data between Aras Innovator and other systems, but we're striving to make it even easier with Aras Federation Services. This groundbreaking prototype brings together the strengths of the Aras Platform with a three-pronged approach, Modeling, Services and Extensibility. Join Eli Donahue, Aras Labs Lead Engineer, for a 30-minute demonstration of a Jira integration using Aras Federation Services.

As competition heats up from OEMs and Owner/Operators who want to take more share of maintenance dollars, third-party MRO providers are facing increased pressure to deliver effective, low cost maintenance services.

The digital age is pressuring organizations to innovate and operate more efficiently to avoid disruption. Leading manufacturers recognize the need to transform their technology and processes to fully harness product data across the enterprise and across the product lifecycle. What’s clear is that they are unsure where to start.

In this presentation, the existing Comet software will be used to explain the benefits of SPDM. You will see how the capture of a simulation process in a template can lead to improved efficiency (speed), accuracy, repeatability and traceability.

During this 30-minute demonstration, you will see how technical documents are authored manually and automatically by direct reference to revision controlled data in the Aras PLM Platform; how Engineering changes trigger updates to associated technical content; and how data is published for use throughout your organization in XML, HTML and PDF formats.

In this seminar you will learn how the Aras Component Engineering Application, as part of the Aras PLM Platform, empowers Component Engineers with a single source of Electronic Component information - enabling them to make informed decisions on appropriate components to select from already purchased components or sourcing new components.

Learn about the mechanisms in the Aras PLM Platform that drive multi language behavior through installation of a language pack, starting the Aras client with new language, seeing what browser settings you need to switch to for different languages and how to enter multi-language text into text fields.

In this demo, you will learn how engineering data is created, viewed, and updated in the Product Engineering application using a controlled change process through automated workflow, to increase productivity and reduce redundant entry, errors, and rework.

The Impresa MRO application can support many different maintenance management requirements regardless of if you are an OEM, Owner/Operator, or 3rd Party Depot. In this webinar we will show how Aras Impresa MRO resolves these underlying issues by displaying the end clients usage of a specific component, its own maintenance history and its current configuration.

In this webinar, attendees will learn how Query and Tree Grid View Definitions can be built using a graphical interface to identify the specific elements of their data model and configure how this information is displayed to their end users.

The value of managing architectural models in PLM goes well beyond the benefits of Configuration, Change and Lifecycle Management of the model itself. It includes the additional benefits of dynamic interaction, collaboration, reuse, and traceability between SysML and the various data models and structures already managed by PLM. These include, derivation of SysML model from PLM managed architectural structures, dynamic interaction with requirement structures, physical parts and assemblies, dynamic generation of SysML like diagrams in PLM and elements of PLE definitions between SysML and PLM

Watch this presentation to see the value of the integration between PLM and System Model demonstrated using Aras PLM platform and No Magic’s MagicDraw and how this can help you in implementation of a SysML driven MBSE methodology across the entire enterprise.

Download this eBook to gain understanding and explore the Digital Thread. You’ll get actionable ideas for making incremental changes—resulting in big impacts to help your organization compete in the digital era.

This animated whiteboard video illustrates the features of the Aras PLM Platform. Discover how Aras’ unique service-oriented architecture enables many of the world’s leading companies to digitally transform their processes for rapid innovation and growth.

In this session, we will show you how to collaborate and manage your CAD data from concept to release. Watch this demonstration as we walk through and demonstrate how Aras integrates directly with your CAD tool.

In this demo you will learn how to define effectivity variables relevant to your business, set effectivity conditions on relationships, and recursively resolve structures based on effectivity criteria to generate configured structures.

In this demo series you will see how easy it is to support maintenance activities from components to complete assets by using inspections, scheduling work, the right resources, work instructions, and enabling traceability for complex regulatory requirements.

This demonstration will review Program Management’s capabilities and highlight data integration throughout the web client. You will learn how to create a project from a template, assign tasks, calculate the critical path, and execute a project based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge principles.

In this demo series you will see how easy it is to add fields to a form, modify a workflow, make a minor change to the OOTB data model by creating a new relationship between existing ItemTypes, and also make a more significant change to the data model by creating a new ItemType with associated forms, lifecycles, etc.

Join Lopa Subramanian, Director of Product Management at Aras, for a demonstration to learn more about Configurator Services, including how to define and manage variability, distinguish variable from static content such as parts or technical documentation within configurable structures and more.

Watch this demonstration as Community Technical Manager, Lisa Costa, shows how Aras can provide complete control and visibility of the entire product innovation and design process beyond engineering change.

Learn how the Platform provides the ability to create and manage Extended Classification Trees as well as Extended Classes and Properties along with the search of Extended Properties and the new Property Columns Panel that controls Property visibility in the Item Grid.

PLM is also the key integration point for advanced product development technology such as application lifecycle management (ALM) and Internet of Things (IoT) data, and enables traceability required for Digital Thread and Digital Twin.

An organization’s ability to innovate and pursue Digital Transformation is therefore significantly dictated by the level of PLM functionality and maturity across the organization.

Watch as Kevin Richard, Product Manager at Aras, discusses how the Aras PLM Platform provides the ability to display 3D models of your product and collaborate using markup and discussion threads directly on 3D content, regardless of the CAD system the data originated from.

Watch as Aras VP of Product Management, John Sperling, and Aras Community Technical Manager, Lisa Costa, discusses how the Aras PLM Platform can weave a digital thread through your Business of Engineering. The demo illustrates how Aras' digital thread connects Systems Engineering, mechanical, electronic, and software designs, Manufacturing, and Quality.

Hear from Aras Solutions Consultant Karsten Lies and Director of Product Management Lopa Subramanian as they address and answer all of your questions on Project Management and how the Aras Platform can improve your project management for the development of your complex products.

Watch this Demonstration as Solutions Consultant Lisa Costa walks you through Systems Engineering with Aras Innovator as an approach to your product development. You will learn how to manage your product innovation platform in PLM, initiate new system models from PLM data, dynamic interactions with PLM data within a SysML model, bi-directional synchronization and inclusion of sysML data in a PLM generated technical data package.

Hear from VP of Product Management, John Sperling and Community Technical Manager, Lisa Costa as they discuss creating a foundation for your digital thread using the Aras PLM Platform. Learn how to prepare for your digital transformation with Aras.

In this demonstration you will get an overview on end to end compliance documentation with Aras Innovator, providing complete traceability and accountability on all parts for compliance and regulation.

Microsoft shares their unique approach to consolidating and standardizing its Product Data Management across all of its hardware groups: building on top of an open cloud-based PLM with Aras and leveraging internal expertise of agile methodologies.

Hear from Magna GETRAG and CIMdata on how a PLM platform approach impacts the business of engineering and how industry leaders are using this approach to layer over existing PDM systems for faster and better results.

Connected products are changing how we work, watch this webinar as Doug MacDonald, Product Marketing Director at Aras and Greg Wood, Director of Electronic parts at IHS demonstrate how they came together to support component management in the era of IoT.

With their knowledge at risk, no overview over compliance and raw material and their need for a PLM platform that can handle their future needs, hear from Romerlabs as they discuss what their PLM pain points are and what they want and value out of a PLM platform like Aras Innovator.

Hear from Aeronamic as they discuss using Aras Innovator as they invest in designs of the future with improved tractability, support company processes and remain in control of all of their data as the company scales up by using Process Plans and MPP.

Watch this presentation to hear from Nidec on their PLM initiative and how they moved through the selection process, reasons for choosing Aras, phase 1 of implementation and how they plan on moving onto phase 2 in the future.

Learn how Yanmar Energy System, a leading Japanese manufacturer of air conditioning and power generation systems, uses Aras for managing customer information and related product data through design, manufacturing, and service enables efficient business processes and best-in-class customer service.

Watch this brief demonstration as Chief Architect, Rob McAveney, explains how to create 3 different permissions for 3 different purposes in order to demonstrate how security is implemented within Aras Innovator.

Learn from Akrapovič what they find most effective from the Aras business model such as a constant evolving and flexible platform supporting a variety of different tasks, a unique and compatible subscription model, excellent support from the Aras Support Team allowing for full customization and an overall positive culture fit.

Learn how ECCO used their mission, vision and selection criteria to find a flexible system that could adapt to their business needs, what their selection criteria was in choosing Aras and how Aras is interlinked within their processes.

In this presentation Key Safety Systems discusses what makes Aras different from its competitors concerning cost, complexity, practicality, adaptability and how an overall sense of empowerment led them to choose Aras.

Learn how the ITI NX CAD Connector for Aras enables you to fully leverage your investment in NX by unlocking valuable CAD data for the enterprise and extended enterprise with secure access and permissions, while allowing designers to continue working in their familiar NX environment.

Learn how the ITI Creo Connector for Aras enables you to fully leverage your investment in Creo by unlocking valuable CAD data for the enterprise and extended enterprise with secure access and permissions, while allowing designers to continue working in their familiar Creo environment.

Discover how Aras CAD Data Management provides full CAD IP management within a PLM context, across a wide range of popular authoring tools, enabling companies to use their vital product information in a safe, secure environment.

Learn how the T-Systems CATIA Connector for Aras enables you to fully leverage your investment in CATIA V5 by unlocking valuable CAD data for the enterprise and extended enterprise with secure access and permissions, while allowing designers to continue working in their familiar CATIA V5 environment.

Discover how the Inventor Connector for Aras enables you to fully leverage your investment in Inventor by unlocking valuable data for the enterprise and extended enterprise with secure access and permissions, while allowing designers to continue working in their familiar Inventor environment.

Learn how the Essig PLM SolidWorks Connector for Aras enables you to fully leverage your investment in SolidWorks by unlocking valuable CAD data for the enterprise and extended enterprise with secure access and permissions, while allowing designers to continue working in their familiar SolidWorks environment.

Learn how DBU uses Aras to manage everything in the business, from hospital patients and their associated multiple daily pills to the packaging of each individual dosage which includes the date & time that the patient must take the dosage.

With Aras PLM’s market-leading flexibility coupled with the responsiveness of Agile deployment methods your PLM project will achieve greater success in a shorter timeframe. With active engagement, everyone from stakeholders to team members and end users are on the same page.

Amscan has taken full advantage of the Aras open, flexible architecture. Check out these cool customizations, including the Xcelerator Excel bridge to PLM, Grid Customizations for easier dater interaction, Performance Analysis and Stress Test Tool and more.

Find out how Aras Innovator's security model is proven in mission-critical operation by multiple branches of the U.S. armed forces, numerous defense contractors, life sciences firms and other organizations subject to security compliance requirements.

Read how best practices for configuration management ensure precise definitions of systems, facilities, products and processes, and provide a reliable structure for enterprise-wide configuration and change management over time.

After struggling with big box PLM software, Boeing Insitu decided to make the switch to Aras. Boeing Insitu reviews their goals, solution and their success, and shares an important lesson: If something is not working for you, find the right solution.

Learn how Aras out-performed another leading PLM system in this independent test using actual customer data. Measurably superior, Aras consistently loaded very large CATIA data sets as much as 81% faster than the competition using 1/3 of the resources.

Despite facing the challenges of the process complexity by globalization and IoT, Carestream Health shares how they integrated systems and created the "Integrated Lifecycle Management" platform which manages master data efficiently.

CIMdata, a leading PLM analyst firm, offers their comments on the Aras Manufacturing Process Planning (MPP) Application - designed to improve the connection between product development and manufacturing.

CIMdata shares insight on the Minerva Medical Device PLM solution, built on the Aras Innovator PLM platform. The platform supports medical device specific data and processes based on industry best practices.

Learn how Deutsche Blisterunion uses Aras Innovator for high-speed production workflows, compliance, quality assurance and multi-site collaboration, as well as document management, records archiving and a lot more.

Read how Deutsche Blisterunion (DBU) is using Aras PLM to improve compliance and security, decrease product handling and dramatically reduce dosage and medication errors for consumers, hospitals and other institutions.

Hear from Bob Parker, SVP at IDC, as he shares IDC’s research on the characteristics of the digitally determined and how they are putting innovation at the forefront of their efforts. You will also learn how these companies are scaling these efforts by implementing an open and robust product innovation platform.

Is your current PLM system future-proof? Digital Engineering explores how a resilient PLM platform can handle critical shifts like changing business models, entering new markets or acquiring companies.

The Oil and Gas industry is facing increasing levels of competition from new entrants such as shale and renewables (in the context of a historically low oil prices). If it is to achieve its stated goals of delivering higher and more predictable returns for shareholders, it must strengthen how it identifies the most competitive projects (and executes them) and drive down operating costs and improve asset performance.

IDC researchers share opportunities and challenges of deploying different product life-cycle management (PLM) scenarios in the cloud. Included are specific approaches that the enterprise is wise to consider for PLM in the cloud.

Learn how one of the leading consumer goods private label food companies implemented Aras PLM framework to centralize all product-related information across the company and the extended enterprise in just 90 days.

This white paper examines how the complimentary approaches of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) can facilitate the integration of engineering processes, tools, and data to improve productivity, quality, shorten cycle time, and reduce risk in the development process.

Learn how HAKAMA used Aras to import all of the data from its PDM system complete with referencing geometry models and total history, enabling them to shut down their old PDM system saving licensing and maintenance costs.

This case study explores how Dräger, a leading international manufacturer of medical and security technology, employed Aras Innovator as part of their digital transformation efforts. The implementation of the Aras software in the cloud is expected to provide Dräger with more security, easier scalability, higher performance and IT cost savings.

As a pioneer in industrial robot manufacturing, the Kawasaki Heavy Industries' Robot Business Division (Kawasaki Robotics) supplies a large number of robots for welding, assembly and handling, painting, and palletizing to various industries, including the automotive industry and the electrical and electronics industries. Following the requirement to manage increasing 3D engineering data effectively, they began to shift from the legacy system to Aras Innovator more expansion usage.

Find out how Aras allows for fully configurable business-logic in order to define business processes, tailor audience-specific reporting and notifications, and display relevant data via customizable dashboards at LORD Corporation.

Microsoft Device Group leveraged agile development to integrate open PLM across multiple business lines in only 8 months, achieving savings of several million dollars in the first two years of operations.

Read how the Microsoft hardware product team developed a single functioning PLM platform to streamline product delivery from design to supply chain. Learn about agile development methods which cut costs and accelerated delivery timeframe.

The accelerating pace of change and complexity in the engineering of new products is no surprise to any engineering organization—and the high-level goals largely remain the same: pursue innovation, decrease cycle time and cost, while improving product quality.

In Part I, we examined how developing a complimentary approach that capitalizes on the specific strengths of both Systems Engineering and Product Lifecycle Management systems can be the key to addressing the entire product development lifecycle. This second part focuses on how the holistic management of engineering information and processes, across the entire engineering lifecycle, can bring immediate benefits and also provide a foundation for continuous improvement - perhaps even transformation - of engineering.

To effectively execute a digital transformation, a resilient product lifecycle management platform is critical. Product data volume and complexity are growing exponentially, and therefore must be addressed to ensure long-term success. A product innovation platform is a state-of-the-art way to create a resilient foundation that can support end-to-end product lifecycle requirements. Customers recognize Aras for its architecture, which has been based on web services from its inception.

In the era of complex products, manufacturers must rethink business processes. A platform-based approach connects siloed processes and systems to enable the Digital Thread. Find out how industry leaders achieve success.

The world runs on increasingly complex systems. Organizations face critical challenges in designing, managing, and optimizing these systems for the rapidly changing products of tomorrow. Consumers’ connectivity demands are changing at an unprecedented rate, driving companies in every industry to build more complex and more interconnected products and services.

The benefits and rationale for broader use of simulation for early design validation and reduced reliance on physical prototypes are well documented and an opportunity that manufacturers must pursue for both pragmatic and competitive reasons. As product complexity increases and businesses seek opportunities for growth, simulation moves to the forefront for strategic capabilities around the Digital Twin, for predictive maintenance and closed-loop development, as well as additive manufacturing, and generative design.

While the v-model has, traditionally, been the foundation of systems design, it’s not just for systems engineers anymore. Learn more as you watch this short video introducing the different elements of the v-model and the five key areas where an open PLM platform can help you get the most out of it.